Day 2

The action was moving at the top of the totem pole, as day 1 leader Vasu Duzhiy, the three-time winner of the race, set out to maintain his momentum. By his first break, a runner moved along side him in the quest for laps. The able Italian Andrea Marcato moved along in a quick pace, with nary a stop, and along in his personal war with high mileage and fleeting time as his companions. Halfway through the day -long session, both men had topped 40 miles at 8 hours 40 minutes. Meanwhile, Wei-Ming Lo, the Taiwan legend, continued about the course, albeit a little stomach music being off-key, but finding green tea to his liking. He stayed within 10 miles of the leaders, and admired their athletic prowess. By days’ end, five had gone over 60+ miles for the 18 hours on course. The top two dueled to the end, but Mr Marcato’s leg-speed and youthful vigor was too much for the stoic Lion of St Petersburg to reach.

Andrea reached 80.67 miles(129.83 km) and garnered the Day 2 honor. He is averaging 81.2 miles a day. Vasu is averaging 80.4, and wore a smile on his face as he took the ride home. Wei-Ming reached 66.9 miles (107.75km) which allowed him to dream further of the days and efforts ahead. 73.5 miles per day is a good start. Harita Davies moved into fourth place with a solid 65.85 miles (105.98km).                                                         So far, so good. Good luck runners, and sleep well. The prelude to the opera has just begun, and the individual parts are moving along in formation. Keep on the effort.

5 September

Seven runners started at 6:00am EDT from the start-line on a sidewalk course known as the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race, a 0.5488 of a mile loop that would be duplicated 5649 times in the span of seven and a half weeks, if you were lucky to finish. The race had missed its usual venue in the Queens, New York suburbs in 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic which hit the Big Apple extremely hard.

Miraculously, the SCMT from Salzburg, Austria ventured into the multi-day running world and sponsored the 3100 Mile race in a beautiful park setting with a small field to keep the streak going.

Neighbors and passers-by expressed their joy and positive vibes as the race returned to its customary position, a fixture for 24 years previously.

Taiwan icon Wei-Ming Lo led the charge for nearly 10 hours before the effort of a few younger runners brought them close to equaling Mr Lo. 

Ultimately, Vasu Duzhiy from St.Petersburg, Russia prevailed with 83.9664 miles (138.1308km) for the day. Andrea Marcato, the erstwhile runner from Italy who won the Salzburg race last fall in sparkling effort in 43 days, 12 hours, throttled up late in Day 1 to notch 81.77 miles (131.59 km). Wei Ming Lo, happy with his effort, topped 80.6736 miles (129.8315km) to open his journey. Stutisheel Lebedev from Kiev, Ukraine a nine-time finisher, capped off a solid day with 71.344 miles (114.817km), and held fourth place. Harita Davies, the only woman in the race this year went for an opening PB of 70.2464 miles(113.0506 km).

World Rankings for 3100 Mile Finishers:  1997- 2022  43 Men, 9  Women     All Venues

All events by Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team except Athens 2020

• Results of Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race (1997-2022)

Also as pdf - World Rankings for 3100 Mile Finishers

 Rank   Time             Name                                                     Daily average- miles         km          month, year         venue              

   days,hours,min,sec                                                                                                                                                                                          # finishes

1.   40 +09:06:21  Ashprihanal Aalto,44,Finland                                    76.776     123.559   6/14-7/24-15    New York                     16

2.   41 +08:16:29  Madhupran W. Schwerk,50,Germany                      74.983     120.674   6/11-7/22-06    New York                       4

3.   42 +17:38:38  Andrea Marcato,39, Italy                                             72.544    116.748    9/5-10/17-21    New York                       3

4.   42 +17:39:59  Galya V. Balatskyy,43,Ukraine                                   72.542    116.745    6/14-7/26-15    New York                       3

5.   43 +10:36:39  Grahak Cunningham,35,Australia                            71.363    114.848    6/17-7/30-12    New York                       4   

6.   44 +06:10:42  Vasu Duzhiy,49,Russia                                        70.049    112.732    6/14-7/28-15    New York                     10

7.   44 +06:58:10  Sarvagata Ukrainskyi,41,Ukraine                             69.996    112.648    6/15-7/29-14    New York                       4

8.   44 +13:32:04  Ayojan Stojanovich,43,Serbia                                                     69.566    111.956    6/11-7/27-06    New York                       3

9.   45 +02:30:07  Igor Mudryck,37, Ukraine                                           68.733    110.615    6/12-7/27-11    New York                       1

10. 45 +03:44:21  Atmavir P. Spacil,30, Czech Republic                      68.655    110.489    6/14-7/29-09    New York                       9

11. 45 +13:49:54  Pranab Vladovic,32, Slovakia                                                      68.022    109.470    6/15-7/30-08    New York                       4

12. 45 +16:45:21  Yuri Trostenyuk,50, Ukraine                                     67.840    109.178    6/14-7/29-15    New York                       4

13. 46 +03:24:48  Kobi Oren,26, Israel                                                     67.187    108.127    6/17-8/02-18    New York                       1

14. 46 +15:01:43  Wei-Ming Lo,58, Taiwan (ROC)                                66.489    107.005    9/04-10/19-22  New York                      2

15. 46 +17:02:06  Istvan Sipos, 39, Hungary                                           66.367    106.808    6/13-7/29-98    New York                       1

16. 47 +04:10:35  Hans-Jurgen Schlotter,43, Germany                       65.717    105.762    6/11-7/28-06    New York                       1

17. 47 +04:19:49  Pranjal Milovnik,38, Slovakia                                    65.709    105.748    6/13-7/30-10    New York                     10

18. 47 +05:39:58  Edward Kelley,41, USA                                                65.628    105.618    6/13-7/30-98    New York                       3

19. 47 +17:10:25  Nicolae Buceanu,40, Romania                                   64.969    104.557    1/16-3/04-20    Athens                           1

20. 48 +03:57:19  Stutisheel Lebedyev,44, Ukraine                              64.366    103.587    6/15-8/02-14    New York                     10

21. 48 +04:13:54  Smarana Puntigam,36, Austria                                 64.351    103.562    6/17-8/04-07    New York                       8

22. 48 +04:18:38  Namitabha Arsic,35, Serbia                                       64.346    103.555    6/18-8/05-00    New York                       5

23. 48 +05:02:44  Kurunga Michael Peel,37, Austria                            64.305    103.489    6/13-7/31-04    New York                       1

24. 48 +08:22:16  Pushkar C. Mullauer,40, Switzerland                      64.121    103.192    6/17-8/04-12    New York                       3

25. 48+ 09:04:57  Nirbhasa Magee,39, Ireland                                       64.082    103.129    6/16-8/03-19    New York                      4

26. 48 +14:24:10  Kaneenika Janakova,47, Slovakia   +1 W                63.789    102.659    6/18-8/05-17    New York                       3

27. 49 +04;34:21  Pawel Zuk,45, Poland                                                  63.021    101.422    1/16-3/05-20    Athens                            1

28. 49 +07:52:01  Surasa Mairer,56, Austria                 +2 W               62.848    101.144    6/14-8/02-15    New York                       4

29. 49 +09:42:19  Ananda-Lahari Zuscin,44, Slovakia                         62.751    100.988    6/16-8/04-19    New York                       6

30. 49 +11:27:55  Ushika Muckenhumer,53, Austria                           62.666    100.852    9/13-11/1-20    Salzburg                         2

31. 49 +14:30:54  Suprabha Beckjord,42, USA              +3 W               62.494    100.574    6/13-8/01-98    New York                     13

32. 50 +02:44:08  Rimas Jakelaitis,47, Lithuania                                   61.862       99.558    6/16-8/05-02    New York                      1

33. 50 +03:36:01  Trishul Cherns,42, Canada                                         61.815       99.481    6/20-8/09-99    New York                      3

34. 50 +03:55:08  Sarah Barnett,38,Australia                +4 W              61.802       99.460    6/15-8/04-14    New York                     1

35. 50 +11:52:27  Digantha Adhikari,26, Austria                                   61.395       98.807    6/11-7/31-06    New York                     4

36. 50 +13:23:14  Harita Davies,44, New Zealand        +5 W              61.319       98.683  9/5-10/25-21    New York                       3

37. 50 +15:06:04  William Sichel,60,Scotland UK                                  61.233       98.545    6/15-8/04-14    New York                      1

38. 50 +13:48:57  Sopan Tsekov,25,Bulgaria                                          61.297       98.649    6/11-7/31-06    New York                      2

39.  50: +16:23:53    Susan Marshall,38, New Zeland        +6 W              61.087       98.311    9/4-24/10-22   New York                       1

40. 51 +09:54:59  Nidhruvi Zimmerman,47,Austria     +7 W              60.299       97.042    6/16-8/06-13    New York                      1

41. 51 +10:04:37  Arpan DeAngelo,52, USA                                            60.291       97.028    6/13-8/03-04    New York                      1

42. 51 +12:30:32  Jayasalini Abramovskikh,33 Russia +8 W             60.173       96.839    6/15-8/05-14    New York                      1

43. 51 +12:50:52  Takasumi Senoo, 39,Japan                                         60.156       96.812  9/5-10/26-21    New York                       1

44. 51 +13:17:32  Dharbhasana Lynn,34 New Zealand                       60.134       96.777    6/13-8/03-10    New York                      1

45. 51 +17:00:13  Yolanda Holder,59, USA                        +9W             59.955       96.488    6/18-8/08-17    New York                      1

46. 51 +17:08:38  Todor Dimitrov, 44, Bulgaria                                    59.948       96.477    6/16-8/06-19    New York                       1

47. 53 +09:03:25  Pradeep Hoogakker,33,Netherlands                       58.080       93.471    6/12-8/04-11    New York                       1

48. 54 +11:34:37  Abichal Watkins,47,Wales-UK                                 56.902       91.575    6/15-8/08-08    New York                       5

49. 54 +14:26:40  Baladev P. Saraz,33,Slovakia                                     56.777       91.375    6/14-8/07-09    New York                       1

50. 54 +15:39:14  Rathin M Boulton,31, Australia                                56.725       91.289    6/13-8/06-06    New York                       3

51. 54 +23:45:28  Clerberton Souza Oliveira, 41, Brazil                      56.374       90.726    1/16-3/11-20    Athens                             1

52. 59 +05:51:19  Daniele Alimonti, 54, Italy                                          52.326       84.211    1/16-3/15-20    Athens                             1